Jacob Kriss

Major: Computer Science · Minor: Management and Business

• Developed and maintained robotic process automations in UiPath and C# to streamline operations and improve data accuracy.
• Refactored existing automations for greater reliability and performance, integrating dynamic logging and exception handling systems.
• Implemented OCR-based email parsing and helped train machine learning models for communications mining, enabling more dynamic automation workflows.
• Collaborated across IT and business teams to translate complex operations into scalable automation pipelines.

• Managed groups of students aged 14–18, fostering collaboration and engagement in technical projects.
• Delivered machine learning courses covering foundational concepts in Python, TensorFlow Keras, NumPy, and data preprocessing.
• Guided students through the development of hands-on projects, including neural networks and multithreaded applications.
• Adapted teaching methods to accommodate diverse learning styles and technical backgrounds.

• Conducted detailed market and pricing analysis, identifying customer trends to drive product strategy.
• Gained hands-on experience with MongoDB by assisting data analysts in storing, cleaning, and processing large datasets.
• Supported project management tasks by organizing team deliverables and tracking milestones.

• Built a full-stack fact-checking application that extracts factual claims from user-provided text and evaluates them against reputable academic and scientific sources.
• Designed a hybrid RAG pipeline that fetches source material, chunks documents, caches Voyage API embeddings, and ranks retrieved evidence passages using semantic similarity and lexical overlap.
• Used Claude Haiku to score claims against retrieved evidence, generating risk levels, explanations, and source-backed results.

• Built a secure terminal-based chat application in Go with a self-hosted architecture and encrypted communication.
• Designed a custom TCP communication layer with payload framing, request-response synchronization, and persistent connections.
• Developed a terminal UI using the Bubble Tea framework, implementing structured message handling and session management.

• Built a full-stack web application for tracking daily activities and analyzing habits over time.
• Constructed backend APIs to record entries, aggregate statistics, and help users identify behavioral trends across customizable time frames.

• Built a full-stack application around a custom seam-carving image compression algorithm originally developed for a dynamic programming course.
• Implemented a Flask backend for image processing and a Vue.js frontend for image upload and compression controls.